The Director of HÉTFA, Gábor Balás works in the Expert Evaluation Network for several years now, the entity delegated by the Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the European Commission.
The objective of this network of experts is to synthesise evidence on the performance of Cohesion policy in the 2007-2013 period by examining the physical and financial performance of the operational programmes and evaluation and other evidence available. Every year the expert network produces country reports on the achievements of cohesion policy and on a selected theme. All reports look at the physical and financial performance of the operational programmes and analyse evidence coming from evaluations undertaken in the Member States.
Another task of the network is a peer review of selected evaluations. The idea is to encourage the relevant authorities to carry out more and more rigorous evaluations. The review looks both the relevance of the evaluations as well as the techniques applied to produce meaningful and reliable results. A panel of a small number of high-level experts acts as the peers in this process.
Report on the “Job creation as an indicator of outcomes in ERDF programmes” – Hungary, 2013
Country Report on Achievements of Cohesion Policy – Hungary, 2013
Website of the Expert Evaluation Network